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I think it’s worth reflecting on the baseline paradigm of our political system. Which is: we are perfectly fine taxing one group of people (the working non-reti
by toasterlovin 12d ago
I think it’s worth reflecting on the baseline paradigm of our political system. Which is: we are perfectly fine taxing one group of people (the working non-retired) at very substantial levels so that a different group of people (the retired) can not work for 20 years at the end of their lives. Given that our backdrop is such an incredible impingement of the liberty of some for the benefit of others, I think it’s completely reasonable to likewise impinge on the freedom of people who can gamble responsibly to save people who are prone to gambling addiction from destroying their lives.
- laughing_man 12d agoI disagree with the framing of your comment. For one thing, you get an old age pension for the extra taxes you pay when you work. What do I get for restrictions on my liberties in this case?
- juiceland 11d ago> What do I get for restrictions on my liberties in this case? A neighbor who is less likely to beat his wife because he gambled all the rent money on baseball
- toasterlovin 11d agoThen restrict it to just programs that help the poor. Still an enormous share of the federal budget and, thus, a huge impingement on the liberty of people who are not poor.
- singleshot_ 11d agoA functioning society